Fear tactics

Special sprayers were installed on board aircraft so they could vaporise over vast areas of territory a fine, death dealing rain. Groups of nine, fifteen or eighteen aircraft followed one another so that the fog ensuing from them formed a continuous sheet... soldiers, women, children, cattle, rivers and lakes were drenched continually with this deadly rain... these fearful tactics succeeded. The deadly rain that fell made all of whom it touched fly shrieking with pain. In tens of thousands the victims of Italian mustard gas fell.24... 

Avoid fear tactics. Scaring patients or giving them dire warnings about the consequences of less-than-perfect adherence can backfire and may actually worsen adherence.A more constructive approach is to help the patient focus on ways to integrate medication taking into their daily routine. 

The products cannot be compared with regard to the environment and health-related risks, so great the level of uncertainty and the fear of making a wrong decision are. This situation encourages a conservative stance in investment and procurement decisions of chemicals users. Patchy information for new products are thus frequently overstressed (in mai r instances also for tactical reasons). This conservative stance is favoured even more by the fact that most users know of cases where the substitutes proved to be just as problematic or even more problematic after a few years. 

Some kids are really tired of hearing about drug abuse on TV, at school, on posters in subways and buses, at home, and just about everywhere. What can you believe The old scare tactics based on ignorance and fear have been largely discarded in favor of facts and research programs aimed at learning more of the truth about drugs. 

Scare tactics Advertising that induces fear or uses scare tactics to introduce unwarranted concern will not be accepted. 

The central thesis of this book is as follows The evidence is clear that we have created a society that is healthier and lives longer than any other society in history. Why tinker with success We have identified problems in the past and have corrected them. The past must stay in the past One cannot continuously raise the specter of DDT when talking about today s generation of pesticides. They are not related. If one does use this tactic, then one must live with the consequences of that action. When DDT usage was reduced in some developing countries because of fear of toxicity, actual deaths from malaria dramatically increased. DDT continues to be extensively used around the world with beneficial results. 

Although radiological weapons have little or no tactical importance on the battlefield, the fear of radiation has become so widespread and ingrained that if an opponent spreads even small, harmless but detectable amounts of radioactive material in rear echelon areas, the action may force troops to don full protective garb and attempt to operate under that handicap. 

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